Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
WICHITA.

l have to content myself with q compare
lively dry and statistical statement.
WICHITA.
Everywhere / went In Kansas l was met
with the inquiry, Have you been to WITCH
itas" | found no place Ia the great west,
not even excepting Kansas City, that
seemed to occupy so large a place In the
public eye as the city Of Wichita. | had
become so disguised with the blooms" OF
spectators that somehow / had become
quite settled In the opinion that the re-
ported business enterprise of this city was
but the superficial activity of speculation on
a gigantic scale, or, In other words, merely
an exaggerated boom" gone wild. When
| reached that place | was first disap
pointed at the metropolitan appearance
of the city. II seemed as II | had been
suddenly dropped from the wild and un-
broken prairie into some great metropolis.
The business buildings are massive and
imposing structures, the stores were more
like great warehouses of merchandise,
than retail msrts, tosupply the ci;ys every
day necessities. Crowds Of eager, wide
awake customers elbOwed and jJstled one
another In the stores; the busy street cars
packed with living humanity, and keeping
time to the rapid 'tintinsbulston" OF the
regulation bells cut their way between De
livery wagons, loaded, rumbling drays.
and lodging pedestrians. The query with
me was whether these evidences before ny
eyes were the legitimate results Of sound
business prosperity. or the superficial and
misleading incidents of inflated specula
ton. AS the result OF the most rigid and
dnsparing investigation, | found that the
manufacturing industries already In opera
ton, pay out yearly 70 their employees the
sum Of $3.50, 800
During the present year POI new busin csc
enterprises have been started, with an az
gregate capital Of s. 900, 900.
Satisfactory and settled arrangements
have been made with the Board Of Trade
Of Wichita TO 90 into operation the present
year, by the following named associations, /
or corporations, viz.
An Evaporator Co, capital stock - 90 !
Wichita Brunswick Artificial stone
Co, capital stock ..........-.. $500 4
A meat packing firm, capt.. stock. 20, 800 /
Another meet packing hrTn that
will employ 4DJ hands :........
The Burton Stock Car Co, Of Bos-
ton, capital stock ......,...... I,co.oeo /
Giving employment 70 1900
BOOT and snDe ElAE14scDCfft cspi-
tai stock. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS %Sps i
Pior nanufac.ory, capital stock. 10000
A furniture mandatory thai vii
employ - hands ..-.-.-..---.
A borss collar TEanu'sctory that
viii employ 90 hands .-.---.-
The construction Of rev buildings vii 4
be simply immense
Plans are already out Tor the Construction I
Of new post Office and United SLa:es cur;
buildings, 20 cost 500, go
SCHOOLS.
The pubic school sys;sra bere Is first
class 10 every respcct Eight Institutions
% learning. s9me q them vel under way,
and Others Just ccmme1cinz - bald, vii
sooa be Ia operation. To the ezs', ca Co
lege Hll, Is The wichita Cai9ef.i:y II the
Reformed church. Ac-oss he river. IL
Wess Wichita, Is the GzTtield University.
Ia the north sec:i9n tie Co3greEadoaaiis.s
Are building Fgirnouni College exclusively
Tor females. On the south II the Jatsoa
University. The Prebyterisns hare "a }